Colour Correct Menu Settings

Timeline FX Quick Menu Settings

To see the full Colour Correct menu, click the Editor button.

Luma Range Quick Menu selector
Select the quick menu for the luma range you want to modify.
Colour Channel Quick Menu selector
Select the quick menu for the colour channel you want to modify.
Use Matte button
Enable to use the matte input as part of the effect processing.

Main Menu

Setup button
Opens the Setup menu where you setup either Colour Correct or Colour Warper options.
Animation button
Opens the Animation menu where you display the animation channel.
Master button
Modifies the luma range for the entire image after individual range modifications.
Shadows button
Modifies the luma range for the dark areas in the image.
Midtones button
Modifies the luma range for the midlevel areas in the image.
Highlights button
Modifies the luma range for the light areas in the image.
Regen button
Enable to get dynamic updating of your colour corrections.
Rewire box
Select an option to rewire the RGB channels of an image, or create a monochrome or negative image.
Red Rewiring box
Select a color or luma channel to replace the red values with the selected channel values. Select 1-R to replace red values with its inverse values. Active when Master range is selected.
Green Rewiring box
Select a color or luma channel to replace the green values of an image with its inverse (1-R), red, blue, or luma values. Active when Master range is selected.
Blue Rewiring box
Select a color or luma channel to replace the blue values of an image with its inverse (1-R), red, green, or luma values. Active when Master range is selected.
Reset Basics
Resets colour correction controls.
Hue field
Displays the colour range. Editable.
Saturation field
Displays level of colour purity in the image. Editable.
Pivot field
Displays the percentage value of the colour range around which the contrast pivots. The default value is 50% for integer input and 18% for floating point input. Editable.
Hue field
Displays the colour range. Editable.
Gain field
Drag left or right to increase or decrease light greys from the white area of the image.
RGB Gamma field
Adjust the grey values. Editable.
Red Gamma field
Adjust the grey values in the red channel. Editable.
Green Gamma field
Adjust the grey values in the green channel. Editable.
Blue Gamma field
Adjust the grey values in the blue channel. Editable.
RGB Gain field
Set the percentage of original colour values to use in the image. Editable.
Red Gain field
Set the percentage of colour values in the red channel to display in the image. Editable.
Green Gain field
Set the percentage of colour values in the green channel to display in the image. Editable.
Blue Gain field
Set the percentage of colour values in the blue channel to display in the image. Editable.
RGB Offset field
Adjust the colour values by adding an offset value. Editable.
Red Offset field
Adjust the colour values in the red channel by adding an offset value. Editable.
Green Offset field
Adjust the colour values in the green channel by adding an offset value. Editable.
Blue Offset field
Adjust the colour values in the blue channel by adding an offset value. Editable.
Contrast field
Adjust the gradations between the light and dark areas in the image. Editable.
Red Contrast field
Adjust the gradations between the light and dark areas in the red channel of image. Editable.
Green Contrast field
Adjust the gradations between the light and dark areas in the green channel of image. Editable.
Blue Contrast field
Adjust the gradations between the light and dark areas in the blue channel of image. Editable.
Red Suppression button
Enable to suppress red colour values in the image.
Green Suppression button
Enable to suppress green colour values in the image.
Blue Suppression button
Enable to suppress blue colour values in the image.
Cyan Suppression button
Enable to suppress cyan colour values in the image.
Magenta Suppression button
Enable to suppress magenta colour values in the image.
Yellow Suppression button
Enable to suppress yellow colour values in the image.
Front colour patch
Displays colour sampled from the front clip.
Result colour patch
Displays the result of front clip colour correction.
Back colour patch
Displays colour sampled from the back clip.
Sampling box
Select the type of colour values to display for sampled colours.
Sample Data Type box
Select the type of measurement to use for RGB values of sampled colours.

Histogram Menu

Histogram tab
Displays the Histogram menu where you adjust the red, green, blue, and luminance channels of the image.
Histogram
Displays a bar graph that is used to adjust the luminance values of the image. In the Ranges menu, the curves for the three luma ranges are also displayed.
Minimum Input field
Displays the lower limit of the luminance values. Pixels with lower values are mapped to black.
Minimum Output field
Displays the lower limit of the luminance values for black pixels.
Maximum Input field
Displays the upper limit of the luminance values. Pixels with higher values are mapped to white.
Maximum Output field
Displays the upper limit of the luminance values for white pixels.
Channel Selection box
Select the luminance or an RGB channel to extract its values for the key.
Out Range box
Select a curve that is constant (Clamp) or linear (No Clamp) before the first point of the curve and after the last point of the curve.

When using 16-bit floating point images, you can select Clamp to clamp colour and luminance values, or No Clamp to allow pixel floating point values to be less the 0 or more than 1.

Frame Selection box
Select whether to frame the histogram based on minimum and maximum slider values, the full range of histogram values, the plot and reference colours, or the [0:1] vertical and horizontal range (Home).
Source button
Enable to show a histogram of the source colour values.

The source colour values are obtained from the current frame. If you input both front and matte clips, the colour values in the front clip that are defined by the white part of the matte are displayed.

Source View box
Select whether to display all RGB Source histograms or only the histogram you are working on (Mono).
Destination button
Enable to show a histogram of the colour values in the result or destination clip.

The destination colour values are obtained from the current frame. If you input both front and matte clips, the colour values in the front clip that are defined by the white part of the matte are displayed.

Destination View box
Select whether to display all RGB Destination histograms or only the histogram you are working on (Mono).

When viewing the Source and Destination histograms at the same time in Mono mode, the Destination histograms are lighter; in RGB mode, the Destination histograms are displayed with a white outline.

Reset button
Resets to default histogram settings.
Zoom field
Displays the vertical zoom value of the histogram.

You can also zoom horizontally by pressing Ctrl+spacebar and dragging left or right in the histogram. To pan horizontally, click spacebar and drag left or right in the histogram.

Curves Menu

Curves tab
Displays the Curves menu to display luminance and RGB curves.
Curves
Display the curves for the luminance and each RGB channel.
Home button
Restores the position of panned or zoomed curves to the default setting.
Move button
This setting is available when you access the Colour Corrector via the Timeline. Select an option to work directly in the image window or schematic.
Match button
Matches colours in the front and back colour patches, and assigns a number to the current match.
Match field
Displays which match is currently displayed.
ReMatch button
Overrides the selected match operation with current settings.
Out Range box
Select a curve that is constant (Clamp) or linear (No Clamp) before the first point of the curve and after the last point of the curve.
Reset button
Resets to default curve settings.

Ranges Menu

Ranges tab
Displays the HLS Ranges menu where you can adjust highlight, midtone, and shadow ranges.
Reset button
Resets to default histogram and curve settings.

Setup

Invert Matte button
Enable to colour correct the region outside the area defined by the matte.
Background field
Displays the background brightness value. Editable